POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : fine tuning media (too many shadows...) : Re: fine tuning media (too many shadows...) Server Time
30 Jul 2024 00:31:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: fine tuning media (too many shadows...)  
From: Warp
Date: 15 Dec 2004 09:37:30
Message: <41c04c2a@news.povray.org>
Axel R DuVirage <axe### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> i always thought that `samples` variable would come into play some day.
> what are average/useful settings?  do i start with min 10 and max 1000 or
> just experiment/tweak until iget the results i need?

  Since proper settings depend on almost everything in your scene, getting
good values is usually a question of trying until you find them.
  The default values of media give acceptable results for a wide range of
scenes, but in many cases happens as with your image. In that case you
just need to fine-tune them. Your case seems quite clearly a too low
samples value, so pumping it up should help (of course it will probably
make rendering slower, but there's always a price to pay for more
accuracy).

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.